Thursday, February 25, 2010

Marble Desktop Globe

Today I came across an Open Source project called Marble. It's an alternative to Google Earth that is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Marble is part of the KDE Education Project and is available under the GNU LGPL (Lesser General Public License).

It's an amazing piece of software with a multitude of features. It even has map data for Mars & Venus. It's available through the standard Ubuntu repositories so give it a blast: